[whippoorwill] In the book I mentioned earlier, My Side of the Mountain, the main character spends his first few days in the woods, waking up to the loud call of the whippoorwill instead of the usual city […]

[both air and water being perfectly still, but the sky overcast, mid-afternoon had all the serenity of evening, and the wood-thrush sang around, and was heard from shore to shore. A lake like this is never […]

When I was reading this passage, this sentence stood out to me because Thoreau claimed that his cabin was fit for the gods, which is quite a bold statement! I completely agree with you—it seems that he was e […]

[I did not need to go outdoors to take the air, for the atmosphere within had lost none of its freshness. It was not so much within doors as behind a door where I sat, even in the rainiest weather. The Harivansa […]

I think that it makes sense that quite a bit of the population was involved at the time the book was written, but I think Walden would have been more popular towards the early 20th century. Walden was published in […]